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Research Outputs (Educational Management and Leadership): Recent submissions

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Holding the state directly liable for educator-on-learner sexual abuse

Coetzee, Susanna Abigael (South African Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, 2018)

Despite legislative interventions aimed at improving the protection of children, educator-on-learner sexual abuse persists, and is even on the increase. Focussing on prosecuting educator offenders and holding the state ...
South African law and policy regulating learner absenteeism at public schools: Supporting an ecosystemic management approach

Coetzee, Susanna Abigael; Venter, MA (University of Pretoria, Faculty of Education, 2016)

Learner absenteeism often occurs involuntarily due to learners’ social and economic circumstances. Notwithstanding this fact, there is a worldwide trend towards a more punitive and retributory management approach to address ...
A Legal perspective on social media use and employment: Lessons for South African educators

Coetzee, Susanna Abigael (Noth-West University, 2019)

In this article, the author provides a legal perspective on the interplay between social media use and employment. The unique characteristics of social media are identified in order to frame the article before a number of ...
Conflicting discourses on conceptualising children with disabilities in Africa

Tesemma, Shimelis Tsegaye; Coetzee, Susanna Abigael (ADRY, 2019-12-01)

Despite the wide ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, children with disabilities are still marginalised and their status as rights holders not fully acknowledged in ...
A lifebuoy environment for successful learning in conditions of multiple deprivation: What are the basics?

Van der Merwe, Hettie (2019-05-16)

My field of interest is instructional leadership that relates to all the actions taken at school to ensure that learning takes place. The eventual success of this learning is defined by academic outcomes in standardised ...
The management of finances by the School Governing Body

Ndou, Nndwamato; Mbunyuza de-Heer Menlah, N.M.M. (Kamja, 2015-10-15)

The management of finances is na challenge to most school governing bodies. The paper focused on adressing challenges facing school governing bodies in the management of finances. Qualitative research methodology was used. ...
Functions of Student-Centred Approaches to Assessment in Teacher Education

Smit, Brigitte (Sage, 2017-07)

This chapter attends to learning-centred (also referred to as student-centred) approaches to assessment in teacher education. The term student-centred is used in this chapter, since learners in the South African context ...
Ethics, Truth and Politics in Constructivist Qualitative Research

Soobrayan, Venitha (2010)

In this article I make two claims with respect to the ethics, truth and politics of qualitative research. The first is that confronting ethics, truth and politics in research is in effect a confrontation with the self. ...
White women speak, black women write: the politics of locution and location in the other researching the not other

Pillay, Venitha (Taylor & Francis, 2009)

This paper scrutinizes a rare methodological moment when I found myself, an unseasoned black woman scholar, researching the lives of three white women. In this reflective process, I make a single point: that the locution ...
Narrative style: the inseparability of self, style and text

Pillay, Venitha (Taylor & Francis, 2006)

This paper arose in response to a request from my colleague who supervised my doctoral thesis. He suggested that I explain my choice of narrative style. I discovered that, contrary to my immediate reaction that I did not ...
Do legal frameworks direct merger outcomes? A study of the legal origins and consequences of recent higher education mergers

Soobrayan, Venitha (Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2003)

This article traces the legal challenges and contestations embedded in five recent cases of higher education mergers in South Africa. I am aware that there are a number of forms of mergers. For the purposes of this article ...
Diverging on diversity and difference : the mask of inclusion

Pillay, Venitha (University of the Free State, 2010)

In this paper we argue that the clichéd phrases, 'dealing with difference' and 'dealing with diversity', despite their commitment to accepting and appreciating difference and diversity, may be used in counterproductive ...
More than an academic jaunt : reflections on a qualitative research workshop : conversations

Soobrayan, Venitha (University of the Free State, 2003)

This article entails reflections of four young scholars on attending an international workshop on qualitative research. It reports on their experiences of the workshop - from the instant when they had to decide which ...
Doing justice to social justice in South African higher education

Pillay, Venitha (University of the Free State, 2011)

This paper attempts to develop a conceptualisation of social justice in higher education based on a close reading of the current literature in the field. An important assumption we make is that higher education is a valuable ...
Towards gender equality : South African schools during the HIV and AIDS epidemic, R. Morell, D. Epstein, E. Unterhalter, D. Bhana and R. Moletsane : book review

Pillay, Venitha (University of the Free State, 2010)

I have rarely been bombarded almost simultaneously by so many emotions as I was in reading this book. As a gender activist I felt deeply sad to once again face the realisation that violence against girls and women in South ...
Shrouds of silence : a case study of sexual abuse in schools in the Limpopo Province in South Africa

Pillay, Venitha (University of the Free State, 2014)

This study seeks to understand the reasons that allow a parent, a principal and a teacher to maintain silence when young girls under their care are sexually abused. Put another way, it attempts to explain what it is about ...
Changing class : education and change in postapartheid South Africa, Linda Chisholm (ed.) : book review

Pillay, Venitha (University of the Free State, 2004)
The cattle herd, the good coloured and the failed pharmacist : telling tales of triumph : conversation

Pillay, Venitha (2007)

This conversation piece is intended to provoke thought on the relationship, if any, between education and thinking. It suggests that thinking requires more (perhaps less) than education.
Inclusive education: a case of beliefs competing for implementation

Pillay, Venitha (2014)

The study explored the understanding and implementation of inclusive education in an independent Jewish community school; a school with a community ethos of care and belonging, whose context is, by definition, exclusionary ...
Masculinities and mergers: Losing ground through territoriality

Pillay, Venitha (Taylor & Francis, 2006)

This paper examines the extent to which masculinity played a role in the incorporation of an education college into a university in South Africa. I adopt the theoretical stance that masculinity is not a biological phenomenon ...

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